it's a beautiful day to open the hatch and drop the first batch

They bomb from the ground. We bomb from the sky; and we are doing it a lot more these days.

"The United States and its partners dropped an average of four bombs a day on Iraq in 2007, up from four a week in 2006, The Washington Post reports.

The number of airstrikes by U.S. and other coalition forces more than quintupled. Officials say the targets included al-Qaida safe houses, bomb factories and weapons stockpiles.

Military commanders in Iraq say that better intelligence allows targets to be pinpointed and expect the heavy use of air power to continue. Air Force Col. Gary Crowder said that airstrikes on insurgent targets support the surge tactic of sending U.S. troops into insurgent areas.

But critics say that the bombings increase the risk of civilian casualties."

We are bombing Iraq five times as often as last year and it is five years after the war began. Its so not like Vietnam:

"He said the support could include U.S. air power for five to 10 years, close air support for ground operations, helicopters and "an appropriate number of ground forces that go along with that." Odierno gave no figure for the ground forces, saying "that will be dictated by the situation on the ground.""

Consider the humidity! Okay, Iraq may not be Vietnam, but America remains America. Ever trying to bomb our way freedom. Not only are we bombing frequently, we're bombing harder:

The US military has launched an intensive series of air strikes on what it says were al-Qa'ida targets in the southern outskirts of Baghdad. US warplanes dropped around 40,000lbs of explosives on more than 40 targets during the 10-minute bombing blitz.

I'm imagining al-Qa'ida was much impressed by a foe who could drop 40,000lbs of bombs on a city in 10 minutes from the sky. They don't seem to manage nearly as effectively with car bombs.

"We just. don't. get. it. about bombing people" - Joan Baez, when asked about the American bombing of Afghanistan in 2001.